Basic Systems

Basic Rules

- Game Tengoku CruisinMix is a vertically scrolling shooting game.
If you get hit by an enemy or their projectile, you will lose a life.
Lose all your lives and the game will end.

- Continues are unlimited.

- You cannot change characters.

Normal Mode/Time Attack

- Both Classic and Arcade Mode + feature Normal and Time Attack modes.
- Normal Mode is complete when you destroy all the boss characters at the end of each stage.
- Time Attack is a race against the clock to see how many points you can score.
- For more details about these modes, please see the individual pages.

Items

Destroying Satoru-kun, the item carrying character, will reward you with an item.

Power Up

Strengthens your character's main shot up to level 8.
Collecting one of these at maximum power will reward you with bonus points.

Bomber

Adds one bomb to your stock.

Support Characters

Miniature versions of the characters come to your aid as options.
Up to two can be used at any one time.

Bonus

These appear after destroying certain enemies.
There are three different sizes: small, medium (*Jaleco) and large.
When collected one after another, small ones reward the player with progressively more points.
Medium ones give 48,050.
Large give 50 points if collected as is, but split into 6 small or medium items when shot.
*Jaleco items are named this due to the phonetic pronounciation of 48050 being close to that of 'Jaleco' in Japanese. So now you know!
The items are aubergines on sticks as a play on words 'boh' being stick, 'nasu' being aubergine/eggplant.

Name Entry

- If your score is high enough to be in the top 10, you will be able to enter your name upon game over.
- If you continue or are playing with a second player, you will not be able to enter your name.

Bonus Combo Gauge

Collecting one small bonus item within a short amount of time after collecting the previous one awards progressively more points. This time limit for maintaining this chain (1 second) is displayed via the Bonus Combo Gauge at the side of the screen.
The gauge goes down at one marker every 10th of a second and its outline changes colour when a medium (Jaleco) item will be dropped.
Below the gauge is displayed the total number of items collected and the number of medium/Jaleco items collected.

Pressing the R3 button allows the position of the gauge and counter to be repositioned to the four corners of the screen.
It can also be hidden by pressing R3 when it is displayed in the bottom right of the screen.
Pressing R3 once more moves it to the top left.